spence in space

Just a quick blog.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:48:38 GMT

Hi peep's, not been on my space for a while so thanks for popping by with your comments and pics it's good to see my space is still here after all that time, it go's so quickly. Well here's a quick blog to let you know that every thing is ok. I have just been busy with the house and kid's and any free time I have spent making planes. I have been trying to get into and understand some of the new things available. The model airplane world has really changed over the last couple of years with new technologies. I have not been in the local club for a while so I have been getting everything ready to go flying again with bigger planes. The small electric ones I have played around with over the last couple of years are now are now old fashioned compared to the new ones I have been building. The radio and motors available now really have moved on. I will blog some of it at time's.

Anyway thank's again peep's and I will get around to your spaces soon. Keep in touch. from Spence.

Name Nasa's Latest space Telescope

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:11:43 GMT

Nasa is giving the public a chance to name there latest space telescope. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2008. So hurry up and pop over to the Nasa website to submit your choice. Here is a link to the submissions page. Click Here.

(Glast image)

Have a nice day from Spence.

Using Spaces. "Module's" getting started. changing your space web address.

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:03:08 GMT

The first module to add to your new live space, should be the getting started module. Click on customize on top your space and then click on "add modules" in the fall down. When your space reloads you will see the module tab is open. You will find the getting started module in there. click on it to add it to your space.

When you have added it to your space click "save" at the top of your space

You will now see the contents of the module. Your visitors cannot see the module when they view your space, its just a module of space tool's for your live space.

The first thing you can do is change your space address. Click on the Icon and a window will open you can now choose your own web address for your space.It will check for availability.

Once you have chosen your new space address you cannot change it again. The icon will no longer be in the module.

You can now use the module to make your first blog, add photos, edit your profile, and change your spaces permissions "who can view your space" you can also add list. When you click on the list icon

You will have a choice of list's to add to your space.

You can also take a tour of spaces

When you have seen the intro you can click on the icons at the bottom of the spaces tour page to have a quick tour of the features

When you are finished with the module you can click on the cross at the top of the module and it will be hidden. There is no spanner icon on this module. You can now add your blog's and photos ect in the conventional way.

For more on changing your web address visit.... Hack MSN Spaces | Dev.

"Have a great day"

Happy Mothers Day...Real Live Moms

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:09:34 GMT

Happy Mothers day to all the live spaces moms hope you have a great Mothers day.

Here is a special website just for Real Live Moms Click here.

Have a nice day from Spence

The Saturday Rant. Whats up with your profile images..

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:37:16 GMT

Well peeps have you noticed the amount of new spacers who have not uploaded there profile picture. Its quite suprizing, its simple to do. I have explained the simple steps for using a profile module in my using spaces list. If you have problems getting a profile picture of yourself into your pc or something then just search around on google or image websites like bigoo ws or messenger freaks ect. and use a suitable image, practically anything will do. Just right click over the image and then "save picture as" in the falldown. You can then save the image to your PC picture folder. You can then click on browse when editing your profile and upload the picture you found.

There are lots of well established spaces who have only used images for there profile. such as Marcel of world live spaces, Myself, and One live alien to mention a few.

It is important to use an image in your profile or

We all look the blooming same, LOL.

Take care peeps see you soon from Spence

Blingee. Add some bling to your own pictures.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:57:11 GMT

Here is a fun website for adding some bling to your own pictures. it’s a simple to use tool and totally free. You can save them as a gif image so you can use them in your blog’s and photo albums.

Here is a before and after picture of Lola.

Before some bling

After some blinging. LOL

To give it a try "Click Here"

Have fun from Spence

Trend Micro,.. House Call,..Free anti virus application.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:33:48 GMT

Here is a good anti virus software you can run on your PC for free.

After visiting my pc security centre. I ended up looking at various anti virus software options. I visited the home page of one of them and found a free anti virus scan. "Trend Micro House call". It will check if your pc is compatible as you go through the steps to scan your pc. The software is compatible with windows defender but don’t run the two software’s together. The scan will take quite a long time. You may then be prompted to take a full scan . This is also free and part of House Call. "Click Here" or the logo below to visit Trend Micro and try House call.

Quote:-

Trend Micro™ HouseCall is an application for checking whether your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware, or other malware. HouseCall performs additional security checks to identify and fix vulnerabilities to prevent reinfection.

Deleting invited friend's a little quicker.

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:18:46 GMT

Here is a way of deleting invited friends from your friends list. If you have one or two its ok deleting them but if you have lots then it can take a long time. This way can save a lot of time when you get used to it.

When you edit your friends module you will have a view of all on the left hand sidebar, click on "invited"

You will then have a view of just your invited friends.

"Right" Click on the pencil icon.

In the falldown click on open in new window

This will open another window to edit the friend.

Click on "Delete from friends list"

You can now delete the friend.

you will have a view of all friends again in the new window.

Close this window and you are back on the first window "Invited"

Choose the next invited friend, "Right" click on the icon then open in new window, then Delete, then close the window. then choose the next one and so on. The view of invited friends will not change untill you refresh the page. (right click and then refresh) or click on the refresh button

Now the friends you deleted will be gone from the page. you will still be on the invited page so just carry on deleting them.

It's a little quicker because you can delete the friend in the second window and then close it before it reloads. if you remove 20 invited friends in this way you can more or less save the time of 20 pages loading.

Using Spaces, Deleting Comments, re-editing and deleting old blogs

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:41:33 GMT

There are several ways to delete a comment on live spaces. When you first notice a comment you will probabley be on your spaces home page. Thats where you get a quick view of your friends activities, your invite's and a view of your latest comments ect.

There several places comments can be left on your space. Depending on your personal space settings. If they are left in your :-

photo album,

You can click on the comment "on spaces home page" and you will go to the album, you will see the comment and a small cross next to it click on the cross to delete the comment.

Guestbook,

click on the comment, "spaces home page" You will go to your guestbook, click on the "edit" link at the top your guestbook you can then scroll down, and tick the box next to the comment you want to delete.

You can then scroll up to the "delete selected items" to delete them.

When you are on your space, you can always delete comments when "editing" your guestbook or photo album.

Blogs.

Also re-editing and deleting your old blog entries.

Click on the comment "on spaces home page"

and you will go to the blog entry.

At the top of the page click on the "edit" link you will now go to your blog edit tool. From here you can now edit your old entry or delete a comment by scrolling down to them and clicking on the cross next to the comment.

You can then publish your blog entry again. it will go back to your archives and not re-publish as a new blog.

To Delete Multiple comments in different blogs,

Click on summery on top of your blog module "on your space"

You will go to your blog summery page from here you have quick access to all your old blog's to re-edit them or delete them..

If you click on a blog title you will go to the blog edit tool. If you click on comments under the blog title a small window will drop with the comments in there.

Tick the box next to the comment you want to delete. you can carry on selecting comments to delete from other blog.s in this way.

You can now click on delete selected items on top of the page and the comments and blogs you selected will be deleted.

Thanks for visiting, Have a nice day from, Spence

Permalinks. a quick way of copying permalinks

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:40:27 GMT

Here is a quick way of getting a permalink. When you have made some blog's and you want to link them into your list modules. Scroll down your space to the blog you want to link to and then "Right" Click over the permalink at the bottom of the blog entry.

"In the small window that opens, click on "Properties"

Now another window will open and you will see the permalink.

The address (URL) is the permalink

You can now copy the url, and scroll back to your list, click on edit list and you are ready to edit the list.

It saves clicking on the permalink and waiting for the page to reload to get the permalink.

Its a quick way of getting a lot of permalinks for a list, if you right click to access the permalink you can save them all quickly in a wordpad and then paste them into your list.

Using Spaces. Adding Renaming and Hiding Moduals.

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:32:29 GMT

Adding different modules to your live space is very easy. Modules are. the List, profile, blog, ect. that you can see on your space. To add more click on "customize" on top of your space, in the dropdown click on “Add modules” (your space will reload in customize mode)

When the window reloads, a dropdown tab will open under the customize toolbar.

You will have a list of modules that will be quite bewildering to a newcomer.

Clicking on a module name will add it to your space. You can also hide modules from here just by clicking on the module name.

Included in the modules are Gadgets. You can also click on the link to add gadgets from the windows live gallery.

Under "other" you will find html modules, and rss feed's ect.

Html modules take html code such as space counter's and animated images ect.

Rss feeds take an rss link from another space or website and will display there latest postings directly on to your space, "Really Simple Syndicate. RSS"

When you have finished adding modules click on "close tab" to close the module tab.

You can now drag your modules around your space and drop them where you want them.

Before you save any changes you can change your module names. Click on the small triangle on your modules to change the name

A small tab will open click on Settings. "You can also hide a module from here".

You can now name the module and save it. Note the other options you can use.

You cannot name "list" modules when you are in this mode. But you can rename your photo album and the other modules. See my entry "re-naming list"

When you have finished click on save on top your space to save the changes.

When your window reloads you will be back in edit mode with the spanner icons back on your modules.

You can now edit and rename list, add blog's and photos ect.

Live translator, translating your comments. and webpages

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:26:57 GMT

A very handy webpage is the windows live translator. Its very good for translating your comments, if you have any in a foriegn language. simply copy the comment and paste it into the translator. and it will translate the comment. You can then write a comment back and then translate it to there language. and paste it into there comments.

You can also translate a whole webpage. Put the website address into the required field. and it will translate the page. You can add a button to your live toolbar if you wanted for quicker access. "one click translation".

Durch sehen Sie Sie fürs Erste bald LOL.

Click here to visit the translator wabpage

Add more photo album modules, latest spaces updates

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:19:53 GMT

With the latest spaces updates comes the option of adding more photo albums to your space. You can click on customize then modules and add more photo albums from the dropdown which opens under "modules".

At the moment there are a couple of problems present. See image below of two albums. I added five extra photo modules in total. I have left two on my space to play with. The problems I have had are the photo modules copying each other. and a space unavailable window when trying to edit a album. The problems will probably be fixed soon.

The other updates includes more storage space for skydrive user's and more.

You can check out all the detail's on the official live spaces team blog

The Spacecraft. Click Here

List Descriptions. A way of showing descriptions in list.

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:18:50 GMT

Recently list modules when used in the small side columns will not display the descriptions of the list item. The descriptions are still there if you click on the list title. The page reloads with your list in it complete with the description. But it dose not show descriptions on your space. You can still add descriptions if you needed to that will show on your space. Its rather crude but it will give you a viewable description if you needed it.

Just enter the description as another list item "title". Then it will show as the next item but you used it for a description. It will look something like this.

Descriptions still show when the list modules are in larger columns.

If your original descriptions started showing again. you will need to delete the descriptions you added in this way.

You could also

type a description in "with" the title. Then the description will be part of the link. in my case the text would all be blue and there would be no lines seperating the title and description.

Bye for now,... Spence

Using Spaces, Viewing and Editing your Space, Removing, Re-Naming, List

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:43:37 GMT

When you first visit your space you will probably be in edit mode already. You can tell by the icon on

the top of your modules. A Small Spanner and you are in edit mode

If you are in viewing mode you will see a small cross on the module. Like when you view other Spaces.

You can click on it and add a list or other modules to your space in this way.

It’s a good way of adding Gadgets you come across on other spaces, to your space

To go back to edit mode click on "Edit this page" link on top of your space when viewing it or "sign in".

So now you are in edit mode and you can see the spanner icon on the modules and the edit link to individually edit the module.

You can add blogs and edit your modules ect but you cannot edit your space or customize it. So simply click on the spanner icon on any module and you will enter a kind of full edit mode "the customize window"and now you can do anything to your space. You can also click on customize at the top of your space and the small customize tab will open.

Clicking on rearrange or hide modules, will do the same as clicking on a spanner in your modules. You click on “exit edit mode” to view your space. Take note of the other options in the tab.

When you clicked on the spanner your space reloaded with a small triangle in place of the spanner.

You will notice also a toolbar has opened with various options.

This is the same options as in the dropdown “customize” tab. Clicking on one of the options in the customize tab will pre-open a dropdown window under the options on the toolbar, or you can click on one of the options on the toolbar to open it.

You can click on the triangle icon in your modules, and a small tab will open with settings and hide in it.

Click on Hide to remove the module. Clicking the settings will open a small window, from here you can choose full width option ect. This will make your module the full width of the column you have it in

If you drag the module to the top or bottom of your space and drop it in the full width feature “Inside the dotted lines”

your module will become the full width of your space.

To rename a list click on the edit link in the list module

You can now edit the list, Click on Edit list information to rename the list.

"Click Here" for more on editing list.

When you have finished all of your editing don’t forget to click on save at the top of your space to save the changes.

Lola’s Good Food Guide.

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:15:04 GMT

Here is a good food guide according to my youngest daughter Lola.

Lola’s first words was not the usual Mum or Dad, no, it was Mc bot bot every time she saw a big yellow M logo. Her favourite day of the year is Halloween. I don’t know if its Halloween or the couple of carrier bags of sweets she ends up with on the evening that actually swings it for her LOL. The first song she sang and still a firm favourite was “Food Glorious Food“. So you get the picture,

Anyway here is Lola’s with her good food guide.

Preferably with a 4lb rump steak to follow.

Don’t be afraid of Burgers. The bigger the better. And that’s it

Lolas good food guide LOL.

Thanks to Lucy for the picture.

Online Films and TV.. Watch tv programmes and Films for free.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:07:57 GMT

There are several places on the web where you can watch tv and film's ect. Here is a very good one alluc.org is a website with lots of links to many tv programmes and films both old and new. Here are some insructions to help you around the website. There is music videos and other things on the website to. When you first visit the website you will see some list of tv films ect, on the bottom of the list there is a link to "more" click on this and now you will have a list of just film's or tv programmes ect.

At the top of the list you will see a alphabetical list this will help you find a specific movie title.

"Click on a letter"

You will now have a list to search through untill you find a movie ect you like

Click on the title

You will then go to another page, some movies are in one part If they are click on "full". Some are in parts click on the part you want to watch.

If the movie is in one part it will just say "full" click on it

You will now be taken to another window telling you you are leaving alluc.org. Click on continue to content

You will now be taken to the video player.

Sometimes it may be possible to embed a video onto your space depending where you get redirected for the video

Click here to visit alluc.org

Have a nice day from Spence

Using Spaces, setting up your space profile module

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:14:02 GMT

One of the first thing's you need to do with your new space is to edit your profile. You should notice a profile module on your space. Click on the edit link.

This will take you to another window where you can edit your profile.

Now you can enter your personal detail's in the required fields.

You can also upload your profile picture.

Click on browse this will open your pc picture folder. Click on the picture you want to use and it will be selected.

When you add intrests to your profile use a comma between the word's and they will become search links in your profile module.

It explains this on the editing page you are on "web apperance".

note, on the lefthand side bar there are different pages.

When you are done click save. the picture you chose for your profile will now upload.

Your space will reload on another page "contact info"

Fill in the text field's you want then click save. you will now reload another window "social"

Note:- you are going through the pages on the lefthand toolbar.

When you click save on this window you will go to "view all" if you are happy with your profile Click on the link back to your space

Your profile module will now be updated

If you uopload a animated gif image it will not be animated.

You will need to make a custom profile module from a html module.

its a little more involved but here is a link for making a custom profile module.

A Simple Custom Profile Module Click Here

Using Spaces "Permissions" Who can view your space

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:23:44 GMT

When setting up your live space for the first time, the first thing to do is check and set your space permissions (who can view your space) to your own settings which is very simple to do. Click on options at the top of your space

A tab will open.

Click on permissions.

You can now set your space permission to your own choice.

Dont forget to click save.

I will look at the other options in future blogs. Now you have set your permissions you can make up your profile knowing who can view it. In the next blog I will set up a profile module.

Have a nice day from Spence.

Click Aware. Safety Links for Parents

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:30:32 GMT

Before you set up a space and turn your children loose on the web, or if you are a child using the web it's a good thing to be click aware. The internet can be a safe and fun place to use if you use it properley and take care on line. Safe internet use for children is a must. Here are some tip's for being click aware.

Here are some Safety Links for Parents

swgfl.org.uk/safety Click Here

childnet-int Click Here

think uk now Click Here

Photo Album: Web Pics

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:21:23 GMT

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Photo Album: Module Getting started

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Photo Album: planes

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:51:29 GMT

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